Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house, sentence 24
Carroll makes fun of Pat's Irish way of speaking ("arrum" for arm); laughing at people for their accents was a common old habit, and it is wrong and unkind today.
Who acts: Carroll, Irish way, laughing, arrum, people · What happens: make, speak, laugh, be, accent · To what, where: fun, arrum, common old habit · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Alice in Wonderland, chapter IV, part 1: Stuck in the White Rabbit's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Carroll, Irish way, laughing, arrum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carroll | Carroll | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 5 | Pat | Pat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Pat | case |
| 7 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fun | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 speaking | mark |
| 10 | speaking | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 way | acl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrum | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrum | punct |
| 13 | arrum | arrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 speaking | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrum | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 arm | case |
| 16 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 arrum | nmod |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 arrum | punct |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 laughing | punct |
| 19 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 habit | csubj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 people | case |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 laughing | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 accents | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 accents | nmod:poss |
| 24 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 laughing | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 habit | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 habit | det |
| 27 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 habit | amod |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 habit | amod |
| 29 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | parataxis |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 wrong | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 wrong | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 wrong | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 wrong | cop |
| 34 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 habit | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 unkind | cc |
| 36 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 wrong | conj |
| 37 | today | today | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 wrong | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- evaluate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed polarity=neg, act=evaluate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Carroll | fun of Pat's Irish way | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | gerund | Pat's Irish way not said here | arrum | for arm | tree rules | |||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | at people; for people's accents | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | laughing | a common old habit | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | arrum | today | wrong property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | be | arrum not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | accent | people | nom accent «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:007-alice-ch4-part1-the-rabbits-house.lesson:24.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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